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Electricity: The Road Toward Restructuring

Description: The Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (PUHCA) and the Federal Power Act (FPA) were enacted to eliminate unfair practices and other abuses by electricity and gas holding companies by requiring federal control and regulation of interstate public utility holding companies. Comprehensive energy legislation has passed the House and Senate. The House passed H.R. 6 on April 11, 2003. On July 31, 2003, the Senate suspended debate on S. 14, inserted the text of H.R. 4 (107th Congress) as a subs… more
Date: August 12, 2003
Creator: Abel, Amy & Parker, Larry
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ADVANCED DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES FOR THREE-PHASE SLURRY BUBBLE COLUMN REACTORS(SBCR)

Description: The objectives set for this cooperative project between Washington University (WU), Ohio State University (OSU), and Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (APCI) to advance the understanding of the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) slurry bubble column reactor hydrodynamics for proper design and scale-up via advanced diagnostic techniques have been accomplished successfully despite the unexpected challenging technical difficulties in implementing the advanced techniques in high pressure stainless steel slurry bu… more
Date: August 1, 2003
Creator: Al-Dahhan, M.H.; Fan, L.S. & Dudukovic, M.P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hybrid Nanorod-Polymer Solar Cell: Final Report; 19 July 1999--19 September 2002

Description: With the support of this grant, we successfully demonstrated that semiconductor nanorods can be used to fabricate readily processed and efficient hybrid solar cells together with polymers. By controlling nanorod length, we changed the distance over which electrons are transported directly through the thin-film device. Tuning the bandgap by altering the nanorod radius enabled us to optimize the overlap between the absorption spectrum of the cell and the solar emission spectrum. A photovoltaic de… more
Date: August 1, 2003
Creator: Alivisatos, A. P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Reaching the Environmental Community: Designing an Information Program for the NREL Biofuels Program; May 2002-May 2003

Description: Final report on subcontract for holding two briefings for policymakers and the environmental community on environmental issues related to biofuels; one on one on the energy and environmental issues associated with biofuels production and use, and the other on implications of pending renewable fuels standard legislation.
Date: August 1, 2003
Creator: Ames, J. & Werner, C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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EARLY ENTRANCE COPRODUCTION PLANT

Description: The overall objective of this project is the three phase development of an Early Entrance Coproduction Plant (EECP) which uses petroleum coke to produce at least one product from at least two of the following three categories: (1) electric power (or heat), (2) fuels, and (3) chemicals using ChevronTexaco's proprietary gasification technology. The objective of Phase I is to determine the feasibility and define the concept for the EECP located at a specific site; develop a Research, Development, … more
Date: August 21, 2003
Creator: Anderson, John; Anselmo, Mark; Berry, Earl; Bohn, Mark; Bujas, Roko; He, Ming et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CREAT A CONSORTIUM AND DEVELOP PREMIUM CARBON PRODUCTS FROM COAL

Description: The Consortium for Premium Carbon Products from Coal, with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory and matching funds from industry and academic institutions continued to excel in developing innovative technologies to use coal and coal-derived feedstocks to produce premium carbon product. During Budget Period 5, eleven projects were supported and sub-contracted were awarded to seven organizations. The CPCPC held two meetings and one tutorial at various… more
Date: August 1, 2003
Creator: Andresen, John M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Report, NERI Project: ''An Innovative Reactor Analysis Methodology Based on a Quasidiffusion Nodal Core Model''

Description: OAK (B204) Final Report, NERI Project: ''An Innovative Reactor Analysis Methodology Based on a Quasidiffusion Nodal Core Model'' The present generation of reactor analysis methods uses few-group nodal diffusion approximations to calculate full-core eigenvalues and power distributions. The cross sections, diffusion coefficients, and discontinuity factors (collectively called ''group constants'') in the nodal diffusion equations are parameterized as functions of many variables, ranging from the o… more
Date: August 4, 2003
Creator: Anistratov, Dmitriy Y.; Adams, Marvin L.; Palmer, Todd S.; Smith, Kord S.; Clarno, Kevin; Hiruta, Hikaru et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Technical Report

Description: OAK B202 Final Technical Report. The present generation of reactor analysis methods uses few-group nodal diffusion approximations to calculate full-core eigenvalues and power distributions. The cross sections, diffusion coefficients, and discontinuity factors (collectively called ''group constants'') in the nodal diffusion equations are parameterized as functions of many variables, ranging from the obvious (temperature, boron concentration, etc.) to the more obscure (spectral index, moderator t… more
Date: August 4, 2003
Creator: Anistratov, Dmitriy Y.; Adams, Marvin L.; Palmer, Todd S.; Smith, Kord S.; Clarno, Kevin; Hiruta, Hikaru et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CO-FIRING COAL: FEEDLOT AND LITTER BIOMASS (CFB AND CLB) FUELS IN PULVERIZED FUEL AND FIXED BED BURNERS

Description: Intensive animal feeding operations create large amounts of animal waste that must be safely disposed of in order to avoid environmental degradation. Cattle feedlots and chicken houses are two examples. In feedlots, cattle are confined to small pens and fed a high calorie grain-diet diet in preparation for slaughter. In chicken houses, thousands of chickens are kept in close proximity. In both of these operations, millions of tons of manure are produced every year. The manure could be used as a… more
Date: August 28, 2003
Creator: Annamalai, Kalyan; Sweeten, John; Mukhtar, Saqib; Thein, Ben; Wei, Gengsheng; Priyadarsan, Soyuz et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Regulation of the genes involved in nitrification.

Description: OAK-B135 This project focuses on the characterization of the regulation of the genes involved in nitrification in the bacterium Nitrosomonas europaea. The key genes in the nitrification pathway, amo and hao, are present in multiple copies in the genome. The promoters for these genes were identified and characterized. It was shown that there were some differences in the transcriptional regulation of the copies of these genes.
Date: August 14, 2003
Creator: Arp, D.J. & Sayavedra-Soto, L.A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Laser safety and hazard analysis for the temperature stabilized BSLT ARES laser system.

Description: A laser safety and hazard analysis was performed for the temperature stabilized Big Sky Laser Technology (BSLT) laser central to the ARES system based on the 2000 version of the American National Standards Institute's (ANSI) Standard Z136.1, for Safe Use of Lasers and the 2000 version of the ANSI Standard Z136.6, for Safe Use of Lasers Outdoors. As a result of temperature stabilization of the BSLT laser the operating parameters of the laser had changed requiring a hazard analysis based on the n… more
Date: August 1, 2003
Creator: Augustoni, Arnold L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Calculations of precursor propagation in dispersive dielectrics.

Description: The present study is a numerical investigation of the propagation of electromagnetic transients in dispersive media. It considers propagation in water using Debye and composite Rocard-Powles-Lorentz models for the complex permittivity. The study addresses this question: For practical transmitted spectra, does precursor propagation provide any features that can be used to advantage over conventional signal propagation in models of dispersive media of interest? A companion experimental study is c… more
Date: August 1, 2003
Creator: Bacon, Larry Donald
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energy Policy: The Continuing Debate

Description: On July 31, 2003, the Senate, facing obstacles to passage of its comprehensive energy bill (S. 14), substituted the energy legislation the Senate had passed and sent to conference in the 107th Congress. Principals are sorting out the implications of this unanticipated development; there are identical or similar provisions in both S. 14 and the substitute measure that the Senate passed as H.R. 6, but there are also significant differences.
Date: August 8, 2003
Creator: Bamberger, Robert L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energy Policy: The Continuing Debate

Description: On April 10, 2003, the House passed comprehensive energy legislation, H.R. 6 (247- 175). The bill was a composite of four measures – H.R. 39, reported from the House Committee on Resources, H.R. 238, marked up by the House Science Committee, H.R. 1531, reported from Ways and Means, and an unnumbered bill reported out of the Energy and Commerce Committee. Unlike comprehensive energy legislation (H.R. 4) debated in the 107th Congress, H.R. 6 includes a section on electricity which has stirred som… more
Date: August 29, 2003
Creator: Bamberger, Robert L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Strategic Petroleum Reserve

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Date: August 8, 2003
Creator: Bamberger, Robert L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Oxygen Transport Ceramic Membranes

Description: In the present quarter, experiments are presented on ceramic/metal interactions of Zirconia/ Ni-B-Si system and with a thin Ti coating deposited on zirconia surface. Existing facilities were modified for evaluation of environmental assisted slow crack growth and creep in flexural mode. Processing of perovskites of LSC, LSF and LSCF composition were continued for evaluation of mechanical properties as a function of environment. These studies in parallel to those on the LSFCO composition is expec… more
Date: August 7, 2003
Creator: Bandopadhyay, S. & Nagabhushana, N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Oxygen Transport Ceramic Membranes

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Date: August 1, 2003
Creator: Bandopadhyay, S. & Nagabhushana, N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Waste Feed Evaporation Physical Properties Modeling

Description: This document describes the waste feed evaporator modeling work done in the Waste Feed Evaporation and Physical Properties Modeling test specification and in support of the Hanford River Protection Project (RPP) Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) project. A private database (ZEOLITE) was developed and used in this work in order to include the behavior of aluminosilicates such a NAS-gel in the OLI/ESP simulations, in addition to the development of the mathematical models. Mathematical models were devel… more
Date: August 25, 2003
Creator: Barnes, C. D.; Daniel, W. E. & Laurinat, J. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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GICHD mine dog testing project - soil sample results #4.

Description: A mine dog evaluation project initiated by the Geneva International Center for Humanitarian Demining is evaluating the capability and reliability of mine detection dogs. The performance of field-operational mine detection dogs will be measured in test minefields in Afghanistan and Bosnia containing actual, but unfused landmines. Repeated performance testing over two years through various seasonal weather conditions will provide data simulating near real world conditions. Soil samples will be ob… more
Date: August 1, 2003
Creator: Barnett, James L.; Phelan, James M.; Archuleta, Luisa M.; Wood, Tyson B.; Donovan, Kelly L. & Bender, Susan Fae Ann
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Instructions for Configuration of the Whole-Building Diagnostician Software Release 2.10-162 Project 2.6 - Enhancement of the Whole Building Diagnostician Task 2.6.3 - WBE Configuration Instructions

Description: This document describes how to set up the Whole-Building Energy (WBE) module of the Whole-Building Diagnostician (WBD) for use in monitoring whole-building and major end-use energy consumption. It is a companion to the Instructions for Installation of the Whole-Building Diagnostician Software Release 2.10-162. This document describes how to set up the WBE software to collect new data or process data in existing data bases.
Date: August 29, 2003
Creator: Bauman, Nathan N. & Carlon, Teresa A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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